Adjustable collar-fastener.



D. SIMON. ADJUSTABLE COLLAR FASTENER.

APPLIGATION FILED JUNE 21, 1912.

1,044,932, I v Patented Nov. 19, 1912.

WIN 858 Y 5 2/ a/mm A NEY.

45 plan view of thetwo DESIDER SIMON, OI NEW YORK, N. Y.

ADJUSTABLE COLLAR-FASTENER.

'Specificatibn of Letters Eateiit.

latented Nov. 19, lQiQ.

Application filed June 2 1 1912. Serial E; roan-ea it all wtm it may" concern: Be it known that I, Dnsmsn SIMON, a subject of the King of Hungary, and resident of the city of New York,'in' the county of New York and State of New York, have'invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Collar-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to a collar fastener or buttonin' d fia will more particularly to one which permits of a-read adjustment of the collar to the neck of the wearer. a Gne of the objects of the invention is to provide a. two-part simple and inexpensive eviop of this character which is capable of ahaniifacture on a wvircial scale, or-in other words which is not so dificult to produee as to be beyond the reasonable post of such an article.

With these and other objects in view, which will more full ap car as the nature of the invention is. tter understood, the same consists in the combination, arrange- 'ment and construction of parts hereinafter fully described, pointed out in the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, it being understood that many changes may be made in the size and pro- 80 portion of the several parts and minor details of construction within the scope of the a pended. claims without departingfrom t e spirit or sacrificing any of the advan-- tages 9f the invention. I 85. One of the many ossible embodiments of the invention is panyingdrawings, in which I Figure 1 is a perspective view of a turnover collar with the device in position therecertain parts of the same being broken away to more clearly show the'construction of the parts of the fastening device and their relative positions upon the collar; Fig. 3 is a parts of the astening device; Fig. dis a section taken through the neck band of a shirt and through one of the two parts of the fastening devise in position thereon; and Fig. 5 isa section taken through a collar and the other part of the fastening device thereon. In the drawin the numeral 10 indicates the neck-band o a shirt which is provided in the well-known manner in its overlapping front portions with button-holes 11, 11,

which are engaged by the shank 12 of a ustrated in the accom- Fig. 2 is a similar View of the collar,

button 13. This button is attached to or made integral withionc end of a curved base plate 14,.the opposite end 15 of which is recessed, as clearly shown at 16, inte Whigh recess is adapted to be seated the neck band 10. in. drawing this recessed end over the neck band 10, the button flew-ill he held upon the band in a fixed position, more particularly against tilting movement. The device now described comprises one of the parts of the adjustable collar fastener, and more articularly the stationary part. The movabl single strand of springsteel wire. The wire is 'rst bent around its middle portion 17 downward, substantially at right angles to said middle portion, whereby downwardl extending sections 18 and 19 are forms Both ends of the wire are then bentsfightly away from each other, as shown at 2'0, and brought upward substantially parallel to e part is, preferably, made of a V the downwardly extending portions 18 and 19, as clearly shown at 21 and 22. These downwardly and upwardly bent portions form jaws, adapted to engage the inner fold of the turn-over collar. Both ends of the wire are then extended at right angles to the portions 21 and 22 to form bars 23 and 24, respectively. These bars run substantially parallel with each other and are curved so as to conform to the curvature of the collar to which they are intended to be applied.

The bars 23 and 24 are provided with a plurality of registering sinuous bends 25 land 26, respectively, whereby a plurality of communicating eyes are formed in which the shank 12 of the button 13 is adapted to be seated. The ends of the bars 23 and 24 of the Wire are then passed downward and upward at 27 and 28, respectively. thence forward out of the plane of the bars, as clearly shown at 29, and then curved upon themselves backwardly parallel with the said bars, as indicated at 30 and 31, respectively. The two ends of the wire meet'at 32,-

where they are suitably attached to the shank 33 of a collar-button 34. A plate 30,

attached to the portions 30 and 31, serves to keep the same at the proper distance, and to add to the rigidity o the portions.

The operation of this device is as follows: The collar-button 13 is engaged in the usual manner with the two buttonholes in the meeting ends of the neck-hand of the shirt, and the end 15 of the base plate 14 drawn over the said neck-band, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 4 of the drawings. The collar I and 24 until it is seated in one 'ofthe eyes.

Owing to the resiliency of the bars 23 and 24,.the button can be easily passed from one eye into the other, whereby the size of the collar can be readily adjusted'to the neck of the wearer.

What I claim is In. an adjustable collar fastener, the combination'with a button held against tilting one flap of a collar,

movement upon the neck band of a shirt and of a movable part formed of a single strand of wire bent around its middle portion downward, then slightly away-from each other and upward substantially parallel to the downwardly conform to the curvature of the collar, said' bars being provided with a plurality of'registering slnuousbends, whereby a plurality of communicating eyes are formed in which,

the shank of said button is adapted to be seated, the ends of the bars of the wire being then passed downward and u pward, thence forward out of the plane of said bars and parallel with said bars, the two ends ofsaid wire being joined, and a collar button attached to said joint.

Signed at New York, in t e county of New York and State of New York, this 18th day of June, A. D. 1912. v

' DESIDEB SIMON.

Witnesses EUGEN SIMoN, SIGMUND Hnnzoc.

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